**Rethinking early Christian identity with the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles  **Shaping the Past to Define the Present comprises both new and revised essays by esteemed New Testament scholar Gregory E. Sterling on Jewish and early Christian historiography. A sequel to his seminal work, Historiography and Self-Definition, this volume expands on Sterling's reading of Luke-Acts in the context of contemporary Jewish and Greek historiography. These ...

The essays gathered here provide a panoramic view of current thinking on biblical texts that play important roles in contemporary struggles for social justice – either as inspiration or impediment. Here, from the hands of an ecumenical array of leading biblical scholars, are fresh and compelling resources for thinking biblically about what justice is and what it demands. Individual essays treat key debates, themes, and texts, locating each within its historical and cultural settings while ...

When love is all you have, how do you protect it from those who want to take it from you?I’ve loved Dove Tryst my whole life. There wasn’t a time when I ever thought she wouldn’t be mine. Even when we hated each other, we loved each other.But now I’m sitting here alone, trying to figure out where it all went wrong and more importantly, how.She’s engaged to my enemy. Days from walking down the aisle toward a man who isn’t me. And she’s asked me to object.I kn...